Morwenna Donnelly

Morwenna Donnelly was a British writer who won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1942 for her "book-length poem" Beauty and Ashes.^[1]

Poet Sidney Keyes reviewed Beauty and Ashes in the periodical Kingdom Come and wrote that "like Rilke she is finally answered, and accepts the revelation. That is the important fact"; comparing her favourably to Rainer Maria Rilke.^[2]

References

1. Booktrust - John Llewellyn Prize archive
2. Tim Kendall (22 February 2007). The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry. Oxford University Press. pp. 408–. ISBN 978-0-19-928266-1. Retrieved 23 September 2012.